A formal complaint against Johnson County Auditor Tom Slockett was filed Wednesday with the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board.

Megan Tooker, the board’s executive director and legal counsel, declined to publicly release the complaint, discuss it in detail or say who filed it.

The agenda for the board’s April 27th meeting in Des Moines says the complaint concerns Slockett’s “alleged use of government resources for a political purpose.” Tooker said part of it deals with Slockett circulating his re-election petition in his office in March.

That move upset many of his employees and some fellow Democrats who are now opposing his re-election. Slockett has been Johnson County’s auditor and elections commissioner since 1977 and is being challenged in the June Democratic primary.

Slockett said he was unaware of the complaint until a reporter called him. He said he’d look into it but otherwise declined to comment.

On the day he circulated the petition, which was needed to get him on the primary ballot, Slockett told The Gazette he had done nothing wrong. Later that week he emailed an apology to the employees of his office.